Renaming Bound Xref Layers

[de-co1]

I'm not on ADT myself, but this is a question I received from a friend of mine, and i hope somebody here can help, as I have no idea... Perhaps a lisp routine might do it...?

"I got a Autocad question for you;

Some clown in the office decided that it would be a good idea to bind an xref, explode it and make this drawing part of our actual working drawings;

Any idea how I can get rid of the preamble e.g. 1st$0$... from all layers, blocks, linetypes etc without renaming them individually?

Guess what, this has been done to 8 floors of drawings, elevations etc."

What can he do?

Any help would be appreciated.

[de-co1]

All sorted out thanks to the Threads in the LISP Forum (Remove $0$ and everything before from Layer names) and the post and lisp routine provided by tyshofner

[Wanderer]

All sorted out thanks to the Threads in the LISP Forum (Remove $0$ and everything before from Layer names) and the post and lisp routine provided by tyshofner

sweet... thanks for posting back the solution.

[phyllisr]

All sorted out thanks to the Threads in the LISP Forum (Remove $0$ and everything before from Layer names) and the post and lisp routine provided by tyshofner

Before I try this, does it work if you have (for example) layer A-Wall in the drawing already plus the annoying $0$A-Wall? Does it merge them? What about all the other $0$ stuff in the display manager and block names and more?

Until now, I have been using a DWS file for layers but it can be tedious if it's a huge drawing. Display settings are trickier and require tons of knowledge and skill most of our users do not have so I end up doing it myself. Blocks require renaming or relying on the express tool to replace one with another. Blocks within MVBs are also a bunch of work. Any other ideas?

Thanks, PBR

[de-co1]

I would suggest going through the threads in my post above.

There is quite a bit of discussion there about this and another lisp routine. The person who I did this for said it works, and the thread does say it is supposed to move the objects from one layer to another if the name is the same (minus the $0$ prefix), but if the layer doesn't exist, it will create the new layer.

Unfortunately I cannot try it out as we are on LT 2000...